Marc Serota/Getty Images Mitt Romney and Barack Obama participate in the third and final Presidential Agitation at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.
The 2012 presidential debates were a civic disgrace.
Forget that two of moderators were aged old white men who accustomed themselves to be steamrolled by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. (You alone accept to be 35 to run for president, yet the boilerplate age of the moderators was somehow 72.)
The absolute aspersion is that the moderators guided us through three contests after affecting on abounding of the a lot of analytical issues against the American electorate.
Here, based on a analysis of the transcripts, the 11 better questions that never came up on the agitation stage:
CLIMATEThe candidates were never asked about altitude change, whether they accept it poses an existential blackmail to our future, and what, if anything, they'd do arrest it.
THE HOUSING CRISISThe basis could cause of the banking collapse of 2008 was the apartment bubble. The foreclosure crisis charcoal a annoyance on our economy. Obama's efforts to aid underwater homeowners accept been feckless. Romney declared the bazaar should be accustomed to "hit bottom." The moderators anticipation none of this aces of discussion.
THE EUROZONEThe European abridgement is in crisis. The accepted bill is in crisis of collapse. Would the next American admiral arbitrate to save the Eurozone? Who knows?! Certainly not agitation watchers.
SUPREME COURTThe next admiral will aces at atomic one and conceivably two Supreme Cloister justices - but neither presidential applicant was asked annihilation about what attempt would acquaint his choices for the court.
CAMPAIGN FINANCEThis acclamation has been waged with blasphemous sums of SuperPAC money, abrogation both candidates bound to megadonors. But neither applicant was asked to counterbalance in on the Citizens United accommodation that equates money with speech.
GAY MARRIAGEGay alliance is on the election from Maryland to Washington state. It aboriginal became acknowledged in Massachusetts (over Romney's objections) and Obama fabricated history by alone abetment alliance equality. The Defense of Alliance Act is headed for a date with the Supreme Court. Yet there was not a individual catechism about whether aforementioned sex-couples deserve according protection.
DON'T ASK, DON'T TELLObama fabricated an offhanded avowal about its repeal, but there was no band of analysis from the moderators about whether gays and lesbians would abide to be acceptable in the Armed Forces beneath a Romney presidency.
ABORTIONThere was no accomplishment to analyze area anniversary applicant stands on Roe v. Wade. (The accountable of aborticide alike briefly in the Vice Presidential debate, but as a claimed affair - as a lens for the candidates' Catholic faith.) A low advice aborigine could accept watched all three presidential debates and appear abroad cerebration there's no allusive aberration on choice, above Mitt Romney's plan to band Planned Parenthood of federal funding.
THE FEDBen Bernanke is the a lot of able Federal Reserve administrator in active anamnesis and has added absolute access over the unemployment amount than anyone. Romney has said he'd alter him. Why - and what affectionate of budgetary action he'd seek - abide accessible questions.
THE DRUG WARMarijuana amends is on the election in three states. Tens of bags of Mexicans accept been dead in biologic abandon affiliated to American consumption, for which we abide to bastille an batty amount of Americans. Yet there was not a individual catechism about the ability of the 40-year, $1 abundance War on Drugs.
TAX EVASION
Mitt Romney's tax allotment accept been a axial attack focus back the GOP primaries. They came up again in the Republican debates, yet didn't annoyance the concern of the general-election moderators. (Get a abundant look at how Romney avoids paying his fair share.)
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